Jason Hendershot, of Niceville, told the cop he knew nothing about the stolen car that a witness claimed Hendershot had been driving around for a week, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

Later, the 30-year-old man told cops that he had gotten the car from a friend, adding, "I assumed the car was stolen, but decided to drive it anyway."

This marked Hendershot's 14th booking at the Okaloosa County Jail, according to inmate records.

When Niceville cops stopped a car for speeding they asked the man's passenger, Jackie Lauren Spillar, if there was anything in her car that might get her in trouble, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

Spillar reportedly began to cry as she told them there was some pot under her seat. A search the car yielded 78 amphetamine pills in an oxycodone bottle as well as another bottle of pills, plus $6,615 in cold cash.

While in a holding cell, Spillar allegedly spilled the beans again, confessing to a detective that she had more oxycodone hidden within her genitals — inside a birth control package containing six small and one large oxycodone pills, according to the report.

Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of domestic violence In Nicville after Brittany Nicole Evanoff gave her stepfather $40 to pay off a $35 loan, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

So the 20-year-old woman reportedly took a $35 winning lottery that was lying on a table

It turned out to be a ticket to jail.

When her stepfather tried to take back the ticket from her, Evanoff threatened him with a pair of scissors, the arrest report said.

Niceville cops pulled over Angela Sue Mawhir, 38, and some buddies over after receiving reports they had been using a gun to intimidate people into buying drugs, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

During a pat-down Mawhir told cops she "had a firearm in her pants and a bag containing narcotics in her vagina,” the report said.

Lauren Jean Gagnor, 22, is accused of swiping jewelry valued at $43,620 from a home where she’d been hired to house sit and babysit, according to a news release from the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.

The homeowner reported someone had stolen nine rings, five bracelets, and fifteen necklaces, seven pairs of earrings, two watches, four charms, and five religious charms, according to the release.

Okaloosa County Sheriff's were able to track down information linking Gagnor to pawning eight pieces of jewelry at a couple of pawn shops.

Gagnor later 'fessed up to deputies that she took items from the home, but also claimed a man she didn’t know very well, named “James”, went with her to the home on two occasions and may have had access to the jewelry, according to the report.

It just seems that people from Niceville just don't live up to their town's billing.

Stephanie Brooke Sandstrom, 27, is accused of hacking into her former friend's Facebook page to send out "provocative" images — including one of her ex-fiance, reports Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

The Niceville woman told authorities that her computer could have been accessed by a number of people.

A Niceville resident told officers a man dressed in camouflage from head to toe came into his home and pointed a handgun to his forehead, according to the Niceville Police offense report, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

However, when the camo man turned to open a curtain, the resident pulled a .45 gun from under a couch cushion and turned the situation around.

The resident told the man to unload his gun and get out of his house, the report said. The man removed eight bullets from the magazine and ran.

Niceville, a place where victims allow their home invaders to keep their weapons.

A 28-year-old man who had been drinking some Panhandle firewater — vodka and Natural Light — is accused of walking into his neighbor's place and making threats, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

If you left your loaded .22 caliber chrome Ruger revolver on the bumper of a car at Walmart, the Niceville Police Department would like to speak to you.

A married couple were leaving the store on Apr. 22 when the wife went to the passenger side of the car and knocked something off the back bumper, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

Niceville Police officers were summoned to a disturbance were greeted by a woman who said her next door neighbor came over, pushed her down in the yard and then beat her up — for no apparent reason, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News.

The neighbor told officers a different story: As she went outside to her truck, parked in the front yard, to get some cigarettes, the woman yelled at her and asked "why she always had to be a bitch, according to the Daily News.

The woman's family told the cops the woman called her a "bitch slut" and a "stupid whore," according to the Daily News.

The woman denied entering her neighbor's yard but shoe prints told a different story.

Niceville police officers responded to a situation that developed during the Christmas parade when a city employee was seen stepping onto the side of a city of Niceville truck while it was in motion and threatening to whip the arse of the driver, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

The theme of the parade was, “2010: A Christmas Odyssey.”

It was odd.

The man then removed the keys from the ignition effectively stopping the movement of the parade behind the truck, according to police reports.

A 15-year-old student was dismissed from his foreign exchange program after reportedly writing “Death to Americans” in Arabic on a classroom board during a discussion with classmates. The student was then sent back to Israel, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

The student’s father, Khaled Kasab Mahameed, said the words were not written as a threat or with any malicious intent.

The teen was studying at Niceville High as part of the Youth Exchange and Study Program (YES) through AYUSA Global Youth Exchange. YES was created through a grant to AYUSA from the United States Department of State to “build bridges of understanding between the United States and countries with significant Muslim populations,” according to its website.

A 40-year-old man from Niceville and 23-year-old woman started texting each other in August. But then the texting took on a sexual nature so the woman asked the man to stop communicating with her, according reports the Northwest Florida Daily News.

The woman told the man she was married and not interested in that sort of relationship.

Then, in a case of perfect text-book timing, while the woman was talking to a Niceville Police officer about how to stop the messages, the man sent a photograph of his face and his sexual organs, reports the Daily News.

As the woman stood beside the officer, the woman sent back a text message telling the man to stop texting her. She told the officer that she hadn’t slept well since it all began and she worried about him coming to her home, according to the Daily News.

Did this stop the sexting?

Noooo.

The woman received more text messages from the man, asking her to show the photograph to her friends if she wasn’t interested herself, the report stated.

The officer then tried to call the man but he didn’t answer, so the officer sent him a text message. In the message, the officer identified himself and said the woman was completing paperwork for the cyberstalking charge, reports the Daily News.

The man replied he “done nothing illegal” and that the officer hadn’t heard his side of the story.

The officer asked the man to come into the Niceville Police Department and tell his side of the story, but the man replied “I know my rights and there is not such thing as cell police,” the report stated.

The man was arrested and charged Oct. 29 with cyberstalking over an electronic device.

Levy Houston Lucas Jr., 50, of Niceville was taken into custody by Niceville cops after they found him stumbling in a parking lot with "a strong odor of alcohol coming from his person," according to a Niceville police report.

Lucas told officers he had been awakened by his son, who he said was hitting him in the face. “He began to say that this has got (to) stop, referring to (the son) hitting him and stated that he was going to cut (the son’s) arms off,” according to the arrest affidavit, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

Niceville police officers tracked down Lucas' wife, who told them she fled the family's home topless after Lucas hoisted her out of the shower by her arms, reports the Daily News.

A Niceville woman called police Oct. 22 after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball while jumping on a trampoline in her back yard, which backs up to the Eglin Golf Course, reports The Destin Log.

Remember, this is Niceville...

The woman said that a man in his mid-30s came up to her and claimed the ball, but refused to give her his name.

He told her "he was not a golfer" and apologized for hitting her with the ball, according to the Niceville Police Department incident report.

Moments later she went to the emergency room for treatment.

Since this was not a criminal matter, police suggested she call the golf course pro shop, reports the Daily News.

The owner of Command Computer of West Florida called police after getting an odd call at 2 a.m. on Oct. 21 from someone wanting to buy a "product" that some people use to get high.

The owner told the officers that the "product" is a mix of bath salts and spice -- legal ingredients -- sold at her business. People purchase the product "with the intent to consume and get high," she said, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach

The owner decided to check on her business after getting such a late after-business hours call. That's when she discovered that the alarm had been activated and the front window smashed, reports the Daily News.

Somebody had hacked their way into the store.

The only missing item was a container filled with "product," she told police.

The "product" is likely something known as K2 spice, which is described as a synthetic form of marijuana, reports the Daily News.

Here is one solution for dropping guests a not-so-subtle hint that it is time to go home that you won't find in The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette.

According to the Niceville police, a man told officers he had five men over to watch a football game on Sept. 10.

The men had been drinking a lot and began getting boisterous, so the host told his guests to quiet down. Then, when he asked them to leave because they were causing a disturbance, the men attacked him, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News.

He said after he got away from the five men he re-entered his home and got his gun. The man fired a shot into the air and the five men left, reports the Daily News.

After the man finished recounting the evening to police, he was placed under arrest for firing a shot near a public street, according to the Daily News.

A 40-year-old man was arrested after employees of Niceville's public library complained that the man had exposed his genitals multiple times, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

Employees of the library told authorities they saw his genitals coming out of his shorts several times.

Previously, the employees thought it might be unintentional — but it was now happening too frequently.

A Niceville Police Department officer responding to reports of a man disturbing the peace arrived to find him yelling at the top of his lungs "I'm going to have his head on a stick," reports the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach.

The officer noted that he couldn't tell who the drunken man was yelling at.

The 53-year-old yeller has been arrested 47 times in the past 24 years, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News.

More than half of the total arrests were for disorderly intoxication, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News.

A Sheriff's deputy recalled the man was his first arrest on the job with the Niceville Police Department way back in 1987 for causing a disturbance at a liquor store, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News.

Maribeth Carol Wilson, 22, of DeFuniak Springs, was driving around with an open can of Four Loko between her legs, with a straw sticking out of it, and cocaine in her car, when she flagged down a Niceville police officer for directions, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News.

After spotting the drink the officer learned she didn’t have a valid license, and noticed a crack pipe in with a burnt wire mesh end in plain view in the driver’s side door panel. A subsequent search of the car dound three pieces of crack cocaine, reports the Northwest Florida Daily.

A 15-year-old Niceville girl, with an uncanny sense of bad timing, threw an empty beer can out the window of her home just as an Okaloosa Sheriff's deputy was walking through the yard, reports the Northwest Florida Daily News.

She didn't realize that her mother had called for help and a deputy was summoned to her home.

The reason: The daughter had thrown a party without her mother's knowledge, according to her arrest report.

A man involved in a domestic violence case was released from jail with certain conditions -- he wasn't allowed to visit the home he shared with the victim without a law enforcement escort nor could he contact her, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News.

But he violated those conditions by calling the victim and visiting their Niceville apartment.

“I called (the victim) from the Dollar Store to get some clothes and some money to pay rent,” he told the arresting officer.

Seems like his victim may have been a bit too nice, even for Niceville.

The man had a check from the victim in his possession at the time of the arrest.

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A 45-year-old Niceville woman, who listed her occupation as disabled and unemployed, was pulled over for failing to yield to another vehicle and almost causing a crash, according to the Niceville Police Department.

She told the officer that she was taking medications. When asked what kinds, she told him, "All of them," reports nwfdaily.news.

The woman couldn't pull her driver's license out of her wallet and the officer could smell alcohol from more than 5 feet away.

No need for a field sobriety test, however. The woman couldn't even stand up.

BARBARA HIJEK has spent the best years of her life doing news research in Florida, the most news-warpy place in the universe. She's still passed all her drug tests and remains Prozac free. Barbara graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in her hometown. Talk about culture shock! She is single and has lived in Fort Lauderdale for the past decade. Prior to that Barbara lived in Clearwater for a dozen years. Truly a bicoastal Floridian. And she still can't figure out which coast is wackier...